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- 07 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?
lengthy time horizons. Therefore, on top of this categorization of activities, it is necessary to overlay a coordination system: an explicit definition of processes, responsibilities, and structures to bring together multiple functions... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 13 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas
run in-house labs to reap the benefits. Referencing the methods and results of formal scientific research is enough to lift a patent’s value. Defining a product’s ‘science intensity’ Krieger, Watzinger, and Schnitzer categorized some 1.2... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- Research Summary
Political Risk, Foreign Intervention and International Arbitration
The Empire Trap: America's Attempts to Protect Property Rights Overseas, 1898-2008, is a history of the U.S. government's attempts to protect the property rights of American investors when they venture outside the boundaries of the United... View Details
- 01 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?
barred People already consume tabloid newspapers, racist propaganda, biased news broadcasts, and pornography willingly. Let them at least know how the general public categorizes such materials Everyone benefits from such a system. Viewers... View Details
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
Inevitably the visible hand has a strategy, no matter how implicit, short sighted or incoherent that strategy may be. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-037.pdf A Perceptions Framework for Categorizing Inventory... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
confers a significant first-mover advantage. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-063.pdf A Perceptions Framework for Categorizing Inventory Policies in Single-stage Inventory Systems Author:Noel Watson Abstract In this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
meeting such benchmarks; and (ii) senior managers' preoccupation with meeting earnings benchmarks might be based at least partly on career concerns. Download paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-014.pdf A Perceptions Framework for View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
we propose the degree of frame flexibility (i.e., the capability of the top management team (TMT) to expand an innovation’s categorical boundaries and to cast the innovation as emotionally resonate with the organization’s identity,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories
research. Every potential experiment was entered into an "idea portfolio," a spreadsheet that described the experiment, the process or problem it addressed, the customer segments it targeted, and its status. The team categorized... View Details
- 23 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Minding the Muse: The Impact of Downsizing on Corporate Creativity
step that was to have unexpected significance later. "Our primary findings confirmed what we had learned through controlled experimentation," Amabile explains. "The stimulants to creativity were significantly stronger among projects the respondents had... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Numbers on Social Investments
to social problems through market solutions, the rate of return on these deals should be at least as high as traditional early stage investments. The big winners were in the technology and health care sectors, and in another group of companies that were View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 02 Apr 2019
- Research Event
Women Pay a Higher Career Price in Today's Always-On Work Culture
really done much in the mainstream academic literature in my field.” The team developed a system to identify and categorize moments when an interviewee tried to avoid a distressing feeling by hesitating, stumbling, or changing the topic,... View Details
- 27 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential
OpenSecrets.org. Direct stock or bond holdings were straightforward to categorize as risky or not. For mutual funds Minor tapped investment industry experts to help him devise an algorithm to categorize the... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
and that this difference in construal partly underlies future lock-in. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-038.pdf A Perceptions Framework for Categorizing Inventory Policies in Single-stage Inventory Systems... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 24, 2007
Student Outcomes in U.S. Public Education Harvard Business School Note 307-068 Surveys educational outcomes among public school students in the United States. Educational outcomes are categorized as achievement outcomes (measured... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS
role in American life, though such issues are often categorized under social history. But at the very heart of the story lie the institutional changes that paved the way for the rise of a new form of banking—the stuff of business history.... View Details
- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
Categorization of Black-White Biracials By: Ho, Arnold K., Jim Sidanius, Amy J.C. Cuddy, and Mahzarin R. Banaji Abstract—Individuals who qualify equally for membership in more than one racial group are not judged as belonging equally to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play
and required careful management of capital. GE Capital, Plastics, Medical Systems, and NBC were areas of growth, whether organic or through globalization or acquisitions. By coding our GE managers' resumes, we were able to determine their strategic skills and View Details
- 01 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 1
Diamond Horseshoe," theater-impresario Randy Weiner created "The Queen of the Night," a hybrid performance that combines food, opera, circus arts, and dance. While "The Queen of the Night" is the latest in a string of productions View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Economic Jitters Push Pandemic Job Seekers to Big Companies, Not Startups
active on the AngelList platform between February 5 and June 18, 2020. Researchers used the number of years a candidate has spent in their current role, as well as a proprietary score created by AngelList that includes experience, education, skills, and job area to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne